February 2012
Play In The Middle Of The Day
Sitting at your desk or even worse your cubical for 6 - 10 hours a day is enough to break the most positive spirits. I know I don’t do my best work when I’m stuck eating lunch at my desk in a windowless office. That’s why I try to make time to play in the middle of the day. “Play” covers a lot, but really it’s anything that isn’t work. If it’s going out to lunch, getting coffee from the coffee shop a couple blocks away, an afternoon movie, hitting the gym during lunch or even going to the park and flying a kite. Just getting away from your desk for 30 minutes or an hour will allow you to come back with new energy and new creative juice. So play in the middle of the day and enjoy life, it’s the only chance you’ll get.
Type Tuesday #128
Week 128 of Type Tuesday. Each week I try and share five free fonts that I’ve come across for you to use and enjoy. I hope you like what I have picked out this time. Be sure to comeback next week for another great set.
“Choose to work on your side hustle instead of watching TV. Choose to learn something instead of vegging out. Choose to encourage people instead of tearing them down.”
—Corbett Barr
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Blogging is an incredible opportunity for some, the fact is blogging isn’t for everybody. If blogging isn’t a good fit for you, you’d probably be better off spending time pursuing something else.
Eliminate Hard Deadlines
We need deadlines to get work done so I’m not saying we should get rid of deadlines all together. But I believe we should get ride of those hard deadlines we set. For instance, telling someone “I’ll have that for you at 1 PM on Wednesday” or “5 PM on Friday”. You now made yourself two deadlines, you have to have whatever you’re working done on that day but also at that time. Those sort of things are going to drive you crazy and just make you stress out. If you aren’t able to hit that 1 PM deadline you are going to have to email the client and let them know when its coming. Why couldn’t you have just told them to look for it in the afternoon on Wednesday? You would of saved the stress and avoided wasting your time having to send that email. I personally try and set much more relaxed deadlines; that’s one of the luxuries I have working for myself. I spent years living with hard deadlines. Clients emailing and calling every 15 minutes because they needed a spot by a certain time so it would air for broadcast the next day. I knew that wasn’t how I wanted to run my business. Instead I say, “I’ll have that for you by the end of the week or end of day”. It makes for a lower stress level since “end of the day” means different things to everyone and I’m not setting arbitrary times since I know most of my clients are in different time zones anyway.
